Instinct Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Her motherly instinct told her that there was too much of something in Natasha, and that it would prevent her from being happy.”

— Leo Tolstoy

She had this desire for things that weren't good for her.

— Anonymous

She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any…

— Cassandra Clare

She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then…

— John Irving

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself

— Miriam Toews

When she was like this, the wildness of her barely contained, it was hard to believe she'd come into his pack Silent, her emotions…

— Nalini Singh

“Grief she could not feel, for there had been too much bitterness between her mother and herself to leave in her heart any deep…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.

— Nicholas Sparks

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

— Ann Brashares

She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own…

— Paulo Coelho

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

— Joyce Maynard

She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her

— Anonymous